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Posted on 04/14/2026 10:47:48 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered US District Judge James Boasberg to end his efforts to hold Trump administration officials accountable for flouting his orders in a high-stakes immigration case.
The decision comes nearly a year after Boasberg, the chief judge of the federal trial-level court in Washington, DC, said in a blockbuster ruling that “probable cause exists to find the government in criminal contempt” for defying his orders to temporarily halt the deportation of migrants under a powerful wartime authority invoked by President Donald Trump.
The Trump administration appealed several times to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals so the contempt proceedings never fully got underway, halting the judge’s work while it considered whether he had the power to move ahead with the inquiry.
But now, a pair of Trump appointees on the appellate court has decided to fully stamp out Boasberg’s plans, saying in a sharply worded opinion that his contempt probe represented “a clear abuse” of power given that the administration had previously identified then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem as the official responsible for deciding to allow the deportations in question to continue.
“The district court proposes to probe high-level Executive Branch deliberations about matters of national security and diplomacy. These proceedings are a clear abuse of discretion,” Judges Neomi Rao and Justin Walker said in the unsigned opinion.
“The district court has launched an intrusive criminal contempt investigation into whether the government acted willfully when it transferred suspected Tren de Aragua members to Salvadoran custody. But the end of this investigation is a legal dead end,” the court said.
Judge Michelle Childs, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, dissented.
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Here is the court’s order.
And here is a FR thread from earlier today.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4374866/posts?page=30
Does CNN or AP ever call it a “divided” decision when it goes their way?
Yeah, a year of Boasberg getting away with that. Along with his other signs of TDS obsession to get Trump on something—anything.
Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
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DC appellate court judge Neomi Rao (Trump) again minces no words in ending Jeb Boasberg’s unlawful and unhinged contempt pursuit against the Trump administration related to the 1st Alien Enemies lawsuit.
Rao calls Boasberg’s conduct an “abuse” of power not only his initial actions in the case but his court-defying advancement of contempt proceedings:
Rao: “The district court proposes to probe high-level Executive Branch deliberations about matters of national security and diplomacy. These proceedings are a clear abuse of discretion, as the district court’s order said nothing about transferring custody of the plaintiffs and therefore lacks the clarity to support criminal contempt based on the transfer of custody.
Moreover, the government has already provided the name of the responsible official, so further judicial investigation is unnecessary and therefore improper. In these circumstances, mandamus is appropriate to prevent the district court from assuming an antagonistic jurisdiction that encroaches on the autonomy of the Executive Branch.”
If that’s code for Gitmo as an enemy domestic, I’m all for it.
Not enough, he needs to be disbarred.
Hopefully, this smack down will echo throughout the rest of the crooked courts who are trying to cripple Trump’s agenda.
About time they told that moron to sit down and shut the hell up....
Now hopefully we can move on to censure, impeachment or have him voted out of office.
You misspelled disemboweled.
“US District Judge James Boasberg”
No Kings!
“Does CNN or AP ever call it a “divided” decision when it goes their way?”
no, nor do they ever mentioned who appointed the judges that go their way, either ...
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